@bridgman
As I said, I'm not an expert.
My statements and my questions arise from the information I gathered here and there on the Internet. So I am not able to give you a link. However I must say that I might have misunderstood the fact that ATI had declared its intention to release the specifications of its hardware in way to support the development of open software. So nothing to do with the opening of the code of their proprietary drivers ...or is it possible that I have read what people, even more confused than me, wrote.
Anyway, now everything seems clarified.
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That said, I would like to continue with my questions (given your willingness to respond and to clarify).
I read somewhere and maybe even on this same forum (and this time I think I can say this with certainty) that the open driver is pretty stable but the support for 3D acceleration is still low and the benefits far below those of proprietary driver (although the latter is less stable).
As we have said, the open driver is growing day by day so the questions are:
- 3D in the open driver will ever get to match the level of the proprietary driver?
- Features, sooner or later, will be all implemented or not?
Because, for example, if today I buy a HD5700 in crossfire with a HD5870 and I use them with Cinelerra or Blender at peak performance (making full use of OpenGL) for, hypothetically, about 3 or 4 years, I'd be very disappointed if once deprived of the Catalyst support, and forced to move to open drivers I end up with drastically reduced performances!
As I said, I'm not an expert.
My statements and my questions arise from the information I gathered here and there on the Internet. So I am not able to give you a link. However I must say that I might have misunderstood the fact that ATI had declared its intention to release the specifications of its hardware in way to support the development of open software. So nothing to do with the opening of the code of their proprietary drivers ...or is it possible that I have read what people, even more confused than me, wrote.
Anyway, now everything seems clarified.
-------------------------------
That said, I would like to continue with my questions (given your willingness to respond and to clarify).
I read somewhere and maybe even on this same forum (and this time I think I can say this with certainty) that the open driver is pretty stable but the support for 3D acceleration is still low and the benefits far below those of proprietary driver (although the latter is less stable).
As we have said, the open driver is growing day by day so the questions are:
- 3D in the open driver will ever get to match the level of the proprietary driver?
- Features, sooner or later, will be all implemented or not?
Because, for example, if today I buy a HD5700 in crossfire with a HD5870 and I use them with Cinelerra or Blender at peak performance (making full use of OpenGL) for, hypothetically, about 3 or 4 years, I'd be very disappointed if once deprived of the Catalyst support, and forced to move to open drivers I end up with drastically reduced performances!
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